rnikander

All this computing power. Can we even simulate a water molecule yet from scratch with QM?

I'm working on an app similar to Anki, where I can make my own cards for spaced repetition, organize them by folders and tags, and can run different queries to get groups to practice from. I'm curious what features people wish Anki had. I didn't love it when I tried it.

I want to use my app mainly for language learning, but as a demo, I also have some geography cards that zoom in on a country on the world map, for the front side.

Interesting. My projects would benefit from those more convenient clones into closure captures. The other point where Rc is uglier than, say, Swift, is the explicit `.borrow()` and `.borrow_mut()` everywhere. I wonder if that could also be made more convenient/high-level without sacrificing the control over high performance (like C++) that got me to use Rust in the first place.

Some Clojure fans once told me they thought datalog was better than SQL and it was a shame that the relational DBs all used SQL. I never dug into it enough to find out why they thought that way.

Been trying Rust for some months now. The IDE experience is so much nicer I'm probably sticking with it, but the restrictions on how I write code are still grating on me. I need to learn the language better, but now I still feel like I wanted something more like C++ 2.0 without as much paradigm shift.

I just used Skype the other day. I still find it useful for certain things. Is it that these companies can't maintain a piece of software unless they see a way for it to grow and dominate the world?

Agree, the Volt seemed like a good idea. I don’t know the inside story of GM discontinuing that car. I imagined it was corporate dysfunction.

I was using Swift before. Currently learning Rust. Want to use it for cross-platform UI, and I'm stuggling with exactly what you describe there.

Any hope for a new iPhone SE? My 1st gen's battery is near dead.

Yup. They could have security by allowing the user to see and control the sandboxing that the operating system imposes on the apps. The app store is not required, but they act like it is.

Is Mojo interactive like Python? I mean will it work well with notebook style programming? I've been looking for something that works well in that interactive mode (like Python) but also has types (like, say, Swift). Swift playgrounds have always been buggy as hell for me.

Yes, my short post may sound dismissive, but I work in tech and I'm aware that our industry has lots of legitimate creativity and intellectual property. Of course we also have hype, marketing, BS, and herd stampedes. Some aspects of GPU/parallel design are commonly understood and other companies make such chips. So I guess I was just wondering if Nvidia had a secret sauce, are they ahead of others, and if so by what measure? I work more in software, and I'm not in a position now to evaluate their hardware on the merits.

What is Nvidia's gold mine? They don't make their own chips, right? Doesn't that mean that other companies can quickly catch up, if they are even behind?